CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

 

NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

BOOK AWARD

                                                                                                                      

 

The New England Historical Association is a professional association of over 700 historians who live and work in New England. The focus of the organization is NOT New England History. NEHA members focus on all areas of historical scholarship. NEHA welcomes nominations for the NEHA BOOK AWARD. The Award has been presented annually since 1985 to an author who has lived or worked in New England at some time during the prior two years. NEHA welcomes nominations on any historical topic, time period, or geographic region. Publishers are invited to nominate ONE recently published (during 2008) title. Publishers should send one copy of the book being nominated to each of the judges. The award will be presented at the October, 2009 NEHA meeting.

 

 

Send Nominations by June 1, 2009, directly to judges:

 

Prof. Thomas Carty, NEHA Book Award Chair            Prof. Melanie Murphy

Springfield College                                                     138 Playstead Road

History Department                                                    Medford, MA 02155

263 Alden Street

Springfield, MA 01109

            Email: Thomas_carty@spfldcol.edu

 

Prof. Clifford Putney                                                  Prof. Elizabeth A. De Wolfe

Bentley University                                                      University of New England

Department of History                                               Department of History

Waltham, MA 02452                                                            11 Hills Beach Road

                                                                                Biddeford, ME 04005

 

                                         Prof. Don J. Wyatt

                                         Middlebury College

                                         Department of History

                                         Middlebury, VT 05753

                                       

                                                                             

    NOTE: Each judge should receive a copy of the book being nominated.

 

Recent Past Winners:

2006: Harry S. Stout, Upon the Altar of the Nation: a moral history of the American Civil War (Viking)

2005: Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America (Princeton UP)

2004: Brian Donahue, The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (Yale UP)

2003: Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1740 French and Indian Raid on  Deerfied (University of Massachusetts Press)

2001: Fredric L. Cheyette, Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Cornell UP)

2000: Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton UP)

1999: David Howard Bain, Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad (Viking Press)

 

 

For Further Information: Contact James P. Hanlan, NEHA Executive Secretary: jphanlan@wpi.edu